Posted on 03/13/2012 8:35:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The Russian regime is tyrannical, criminal, murderous, and every bit as paranoid and predatory as its predecessor, the Soviet Union.
It thinks the West duplicitous, arrogant and greedy and it wants our secrets, whether military, business or political. To get them it uses an underground army of spies based here, whose most potent weapon is their ordinariness.
They are the kind of people you might meet at the school gates, work alongside in an office or see mowing the lawn next door, stealthily penetrating our society.
That Russia runs such agents in the U.S., Britain and Europe (and elsewhere) should be cause for alarm.
Imagine someone who loathes you has a key to your front door. It will be little comfort if he has not yet got round to burning your house down, stealing your valuables, or planting drugs. The worry is that he could. Deception is at the very heart of today’s Russia.
This is not surprising since Soviet-era spies — from Putin, himself a former KGB officer, downwards — now run the country.
They are known as the Siloviki, or ‘men of power’, and are a criminal conspiracy intent on enriching themselves. Under them, the dividing line between public and private interests is hopelessly blurred.
Successful businesses are taken over and systematically looted.
Anyone who stands in the way of this risks arrest, imprisonment and even murder.
People who are government ministers in the morning are the chairmen of commercial enterprises in the afternoon. These are not real companies in a Western sense.
Their aim is not to add value, reward shareholders and invest for the future, but to siphon off money to insiders’ private schemes.
In no other country have gangsterdom and state power overlapped to such a degree.
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In 1999, I worked with a Russian emigre for several months. We had spoken once of the changes in Russia after the Curtain came down. Thereafter, every time he saw me, he said to me “Putin is KGB. Never trust Putin.”
Sounds to me like the Obama administration.
Not if we start believing in God and following Him. Remember David and Goliath?
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